TromboneChat

I'll start.
Sachse Bass concerto
Weber Romance arranged for bass by Eliezer Aharoni

Ives, 4 songs, arranged by Sauer. I really like Ives and these are just good music.

Also, a set of Basic and Exotic Scales for Native American Style Flute.

Books:
Marstellar & Rochut
Brad Edwards - Lip Slur Melodies

On the iPad:
Mark Nightingale - Warm-Up Book & 20 Jazz Etudes
Transcriptions of Fred Wesley (Pass the Peas), Dennis Rollins (Shake it Down), Jack Teagarden (St. James Infirmary)

Also a metronome/tuner, which is probably the most useful thing on there!
Great question!

Today, just the Ilan Morgenstern Trombone Exercise Library Project. Day 3 of coming back after a short break.

Once I'm back, a huge list... something specific for every double, big band tunes, excerpts, solos... maybe a bit too much!

Gershwin By Special Arrangement - Alfred Publishing. They're all fun to play.

Tommy Dorsey Medley arr. by Eric Burger

Oh, and a bottle of Southern Tier 2X Milk Stout 7.5 ABV

Stravinsky's Ragtime

Grigoriev, Gillis, Pederson, Uber/Knaub

Big band charts

Beatles real book
Snedecor etudes
bass clef hymnal

Slurs
Scales
Arban
Concone (rochut hiatus...)
Tyrell
Boutry
Sluchin alto studies
Naulis (i think? Just got it) alto studies
Telemann Flute Fantasias for alto
Tomasi Concerto
Rachmaninov Elegy

Kdanielsen wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:03 pm
Naulis (i think? Just got it) alto studies

Naulais?

Should be good stuff.

Not enough :/ I’ve been doing a lot of reading theory books though. Music wise, bach cello suite 2, zwei phantasiestucke, bob mcchesney’s harmonic dexterity which is insanely hard to sound good on, and a crazy reharmonization of twinkle twinkle little star for trombone quintet i’m gonna record for my little sister

MMaggio

Chas Colin lip flex

Multiple arrangements of Basin Street Blues at all times. Some Eb printouts from 8notes subscription. And a new trad jazz book I picked up.

Cheers

PS, surly I’m not the only one who strongly prefers Eb arrangements? It’s always been the most fun to me

Burgerbob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:46 pm

Kdanielsen wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:03 pm
Naulis (i think? Just got it) alto studies

Naulais?

Should be good stuff.

Yes that’s it. I’ve only just started working on the first etude. Reminds me of David Uber.

olivegreenink wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:31 am Multiple arrangements of Basin Street Blues at all times. Some Eb printouts from 8notes subscription. And a new trad jazz book I picked up.

Cheers

PS, surly I’m not the only one who strongly prefers Eb arrangements? It’s always been the most fun to me

I love me an Eb funk or trad. tune! So easy to move around in, the range sits nicely on the horn, and I really prefer having my "home position" be 3rd (rather than 1st in Bb).

The Art of Trombone Playing - Klienhammer
LaFosse
How Brass Players Do It - Ridgeon
Solos For The Trombone Player - Smith (Ed)
Various Realbook Tunes for play along and improv practice
Handwritten technique reminders eg ‘brick’

Geordie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:46 am The Art of Trombone Playing - Klienhammer
LaFosse
How Brass Players Do It - Ridgeon
Solos For The Trombone Player - Smith (Ed)
Various Realbook Tunes for play along and improv practice
Handwritten technique reminders eg ‘brick’

The young people in the front of the Ridgeon book are coming up for retirement now. Funny how quickly life passes.

Chris

Or was that in 'brass for beginners ' ?

Chris

I'm returning to modern trombone seriously for the first time in years:
Sachse concerto (bass version) and bass excerpts.

Otherwise:
Bunch of 15th century music I need to learn for a concert on slide trumpet in a month.
Much of my practice these days is without a stand proper (improv and playing by ear)

One piece at a time on the stand but I have a big pile that I keep dipping into:-

Alto Trombone
Leopold Mozart Concerto. New to the collection.

Medium Tenor
Saint-Saens Cavatine and The Swan
Gordon Langford Rhapsody
Cook Bolivar
Ravel Bolero
Some old Salvation Army albums, Concertino by Leidzen, The Eternal Quest by Steadman-Allen, A Song of Faith by Ball.

Large Bore Tenor
Gordon Jacob Concerto
Derek Bourgeois Concerto
David Concertino
Malcolm Arnold Fantasie
Senaille Allegro Spiritoso
Stravinsky Pulcinella
Dvorak 8th Symphony

Bass Trombone
Lebedev Concerto in One Movement
McCarty Sonata
Chris Stearn McCrorie's Glory
Rossini Overture The Thieving Magpie, both versions
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries, contra part

I also have 16 Studies by Kreutzer, 60 Studies by Gaetke and 24 Jazz Etudes by Jack Gale.

As I am retired, I am able to do 1 to 2 hours most days of the week and, for the sake of the neighbours, I vary the programme but stick to 1 type of instrument per session.

Cheers

Stewbones43

FOSSIL wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:00 pm Or was that in 'brass for beginners ' ?

Chris

The pictures in How brass players etc are of a bikini clad ‘Miss Incorrect Breath’ demonstrating breathing and torso shape in some black/white /grey pictures. All very mid-1970s

Geordie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:15 pm

FOSSIL wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:00 pm Or was that in 'brass for beginners ' ?

Chris

The pictures in How brass players etc are of a bikini clad ‘Miss Incorrect Breath’ demonstrating breathing and torso shape in some black/white /grey pictures. All very mid-1970s

Yup, all my friends back then.

Chris

LeTromboniste wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:42 pm I'm returning to modern trombone seriously for the first time in years:
Sachse concerto (bass version) and bass excerpts.

Feeling a little bit sorry for you
I was so happy to never play Sachse again when I decided I would not pursue an orchestral career anymore.
Good luck with whatever you are aiming for!

For me it's Blue Topaz on bass as I will probably be playing it with a trombone ensemble in the summer. And Bob Mcchesney's harmonic dexterity.
On tenor it's sometimes Sulek Sonata. I might start really working on Ropartz or Martin Ballade for some fun. Could be a stupid idea
On alto I might pick up one of the concertos again or get into the Mozart requiem part for the challenge.
Open for suggestions for small tenor!?
Overall I am trying to spend a bit more time on actual music this year.

FOSSIL wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:48 pm

Geordie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:15 pm

The pictures in How brass players etc are of a bikini clad ‘Miss Incorrect Breath’ demonstrating breathing and torso shape in some black/white /grey pictures. All very mid-1970s

Yup, all my friends back then.

Chris

Sounds like there might be a story about how the pictures came about. Interested as I met John a couple of times. Where the people in the pics musicians Chris?

Geordie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:01 am

FOSSIL wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:48 pm

Yup, all my friends back then.

Chris

Sounds like there might be a story about how the pictures came about. Interested as I met John a couple of times. Where the people in the pics musicians Chris?

Most of the people there were pupils of John and played in the brass band he formed, Redbridge Brass. The exception was miss incorrect breath, who was a violinist studying at college who was going out with the principal euph player.
There was a band reunion a few years back where we found out how each others lives had gone....weird.

Chris

MStarke wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:14 pm

LeTromboniste wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:42 pm I'm returning to modern trombone seriously for the first time in years:
Sachse concerto (bass version) and bass excerpts.

Feeling a little bit sorry for you
I was so happy to never play Sachse again when I decided I would not pursue an orchestral career anymore.
Good luck with whatever you are aiming for!

Preparing my first audition in years (mostly because with the pandemic and all the cancelled projects, why not!).
I'm actually happy to work on the Sachse. It's not great music, but there's way more room to work on interpretation and musical ideas on the than it seems, especially at the "micro" scale, and I like the challenge of making it interesting. And I've never learned the piece before (I was primarily a tenor player before I moved to early instruments and although I had played quite a bit of bass in orchestra and ensembles and worked on excerpts a lot, I hadn't worked on much solo rep), so it's very fresh and I'm not bored with it yet. Hopefully that might be an advantage when the rest of the field just can't stand the piece

LeTromboniste wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:34 pm Preparing my first audition in years (mostly because with the pandemic and all the cancelled projects, why not!).
I'm actually happy to work on the Sachse.

Max,

Good luck on your trombone audition.

But please don't give up the sackbut and early music in general - you're too good at it!

Bordogni.

Not so much on my stand as on my desktop.

An off-and-on project of mine has been to transcribe the original piano accompaniments to the "Rochut" Bordogni etudes in to MuseScore format to use as play-alongs.

Yes, I do know there have been other efforts to render these as MIDI files or as audio recordings, but those are inflexible and often only basic representations of the music.

Once it is in MuseScore you can easily edit it to any key or tempo you wish along with any nuance you desire.

I have found public domain sources for most of them but several elude me. In particular, the ones numbered in Rochut as 15, 26, 27, 29, 31, 35, 36, 38, 42, 43, 44, 49, 50

If anyone should encounter public domain sources for the accompaniments of any of those... let me know.

The Trombone Virtuoso-Simone Mantia

LeTromboniste wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:34 pm

MStarke wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:14 pm

Feeling a little bit sorry for you
I was so happy to never play Sachse again when I decided I would not pursue an orchestral career anymore.
Good luck with whatever you are aiming for!

Preparing my first audition in years (mostly because with the pandemic and all the cancelled projects, why not!).
I'm actually happy to work on the Sachse. It's not great music, but there's way more room to work on interpretation and musical ideas on the than it seems, especially at the "micro" scale, and I like the challenge of making it interesting. And I've never learned the piece before (I was primarily a tenor player before I moved to early instruments and although I had played quite a bit of bass in orchestra and ensembles and worked on excerpts a lot, I hadn't worked on much solo rep), so it's very fresh and I'm not bored with it yet. Hopefully that might be an advantage when the rest of the field just can't stand the piece

It's certainly good if you are a little more enthusiastic about this piece than many bass trombonists!
All the best for your audition.

Not much really.

Vernon- The Singing Trombone
Snedecor- Low Etudes (on bass trombone)
Sachse- 100 Etudes (trumpet book on bass trombone)

Anyone have experience with the Walter Sear Tuba Etudes? I like his tuba duets. How about the Sass Bass Lines book?

500 lead sheets harvested from Wikifonia
Lead book from my big band to practice with the "YouTube Big Band" (i.e., bands playing the same arrangements in our book)

Conn100HGuy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:16 am 500 lead sheets harvested from Wikifonia
Lead book from my big band to practice with the "YouTube Big Band" (i.e., bands playing the same arrangements in our book)

That's one heck of a database! I purchased just about every fake book Hal Leonard sells, so I have all the tunes covered. What this database allows me to do is to take each tune and reformat it in Finale, then use the chords to cobble up a Band-in-a-Box accompaniment. What normally took me about an hour per chart now takes me about 10 minutes. Thanks!

Vox Gabrieli
Harvest Concerto
Three Medieval Dances
Lettsanity
Isn't She Lovely
Best Things
Lilium
The quartet parts for Cavelleria Rusticana

harrisonreed wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:55 am Vox Gabrieli
Harvest Concerto
Three Medieval Dances
Lettsanity
Isn't She Lovely
Best Things
Lilium
The quartet parts for Cavelleria Rusticana

How’s Lettsanity treating you? Love that tune - I used to gig it regularly back in Scotland before moving stateside. Good times.

Our arrangement is pretty easy, so no problems. I need to get the laser beam sound concept engrained into my playing for this chart.

Best things is by far my favorite of the fun tunes on there:

Rochut etudes (always)
Conconi Complete Solfeggi
Tommy Pederson Elementary Bass Trombone Studies (anything but elementary!)
Soliloquy, Op. 67, Bob Atwell (Commissioned for the Civic Orchestra of Tucson, to be recorded virtually in March)

Brad Edwards Lip Slur Melodies
Bach/Sauer 2-part Inventions
Real Book 6th edition

Alan Kaplan's MMO "Classic Standards for Trombone" and a folder of big band charts that I rehearse with YouTube videos of the same arrangements.

This big band chart called "ya gotta try" that is kicking my butt. If it weren't for the tempo it'd be OK, but we take it at warp speed!

At the moment - NOTHING! Lol! I'm 'boning up on my improv - per another thread!

Rochut
Leopold Mozart concerto
Telemann flute fantasies

and as a long term goal for a new polka band we’re forming after lockdown:
Pezi und Woidl https://www.martin-scharnagl.at/userda ... _woidl.pdf (Tenorhorn, not trombone, I‘m not completely crazy)

One of my own files containing Band-in-a-Box Lead Sheets for Standards. The tunes were selected from combined Top 10 surveys carried out by various sources. This is the list, with my favorite recording shown:
Body And Soul - George Chisholme
All The Things You Are - Frank Rosolino
Summertime - Miles Davis
Autumn Leaves - Curtis Fuller
'Round Midnight - Cootie Williams with Ellington
On Green Dolphin Street - Miles Davis
I Can't Get Started - Bunny Berigan
My Funny Valentine - JJ Johnson
Take The 'A' Train - Roy Williams
Lover Man - Jim Cullum
Blue Bossa - JJ Johnson
What Is This Thing Called Love - Art Pepper
There Is No Greater Love - Frank Rosolino
Yesterdays - JJ Johnson
Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
Stella By Starlight - JJ Johnson
Have You Met Miss Jones - Bruce Turner

Tunes included that I like but are outside of the Top 10:

What's New
Undecided
Tangarine
Star Dust
I'm Gettting Sentimental Over You

This was a file I put together many years ago and I was just having some fun playing with the Band-in-a-Box rhythm sections. Thank goodness that the rules here in Queensland for the pandemic are allowing me to play with real musicians once more.

Rochut, alto, tenor,and bass bone books
Tuba Arias
Bill Bell Tuba Method
Ostrander Method for Bass Trombone
Tommy Pederson Duets for Tenor and Bass Bone
Tommy Pederson Duets for 2 bass bones
Tommy Pederson Advanced Etudes for bass bone

Most I've been playing in a year. Currently up:
• Snedecor: Lyrical Etudes for Trombone
• Rochut (Bordogni): Melodious Etudes (Book 1)
• Barat: Andante and Allegro
• David: Concertino, Op. 4
• Curnow: Great Hymns (playing a solo for an outdoor Easter Service)

Who knows what's next, and when?

Vegasbound wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:44 am Chas Colin lip flex

I just got this delivered. It’s been a few months since you posted, how are you getting on with it? Any tips for someone just starting with it?

MrHCinDE wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:50 pm

Vegasbound wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:44 am Chas Colin lip flex

I just got this delivered. It’s been a few months since you posted, how are you getting on with it? Any tips for someone just starting with it?

I have used it for many years.....less is more when starting out and read the instructions

Vegasbound wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 1:46 pm

MrHCinDE wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:50 pm

I just got this delivered. It’s been a few months since you posted, how are you getting on with it? Any tips for someone just starting with it?

I have used it for many years.....less is more when starting out and read the instructions

Thanks, I‘ve got plenty of time to work my way through it and will take your advice.